Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Johanna Hantel of Malvern, injured in the Boston Marathon bombing two years ago, looked at the condemned murderer in court Wednesday and vowed, "If I have to crawl, I am going to continue running Boston each year … Because I will not let this sickening act take that away from me."

The 55-year-old woman was one of 24 victims who addressed Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in federal court Wednesday morning before he was to be officially sentenced to death by the judge. The decision to impose the death penalty on the 21-year-old had already been made by the jury, so Wednesday's hearing was mainly a day for survivors such as Hantel to tell the former college student how his bombs changed...

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